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ARCHER2 Weekly Newsletter

By ARCHER2 Service on May 26, 2021

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HPC Carpentry course

2 - 3 June 2021 09:30 - 16:00 BST

This course introduces accessing remote advanced computing facilities via the command line and High Performance Computing (HPC). After completing this course, participants will:

  • Understand motivations for using HPC in research.
  • Understand how HPC systems are put together to achieve performance and how they differ from desktops/laptops.
  • Know how to connect to remote HPC systems and transfer data.
  • Be able to use the Bash command line on remote systems.
  • Know how to use a scheduler to work on a shared system.
  • Be able to use software modules to access different HPC software.
  • Be able to work effectively on a remote shared resource.

There are no prerequisites for this workshop.

Further details https://www.archer2.ac.uk/training/#upcoming-training

Data Carpentry course

14 - 17 June 2021 09:30 - 13:00 BST

Data Carpentry develops and teaches workshops on the fundamental data skills needed to conduct research. Its target audience is researchers who have little to no prior computational experience, and its lessons are domain specific, building on learners’ existing knowledge to enable them to quickly apply skills learned to their own research. Participants will be encouraged to help one another and to apply what they have learned to their own research problems.

The workshop will cover:

  • Data Organization in Spreadsheets. OpenRefine for Data Cleaning.
  • Introduction to R. Data analysis and Visualization.
  • Data Management with SQL.

Further details https://www.archer2.ac.uk/training/#upcoming-training

Software Carpentry course

21 - 24 June 2021 09:30 - 13:00 BST

Software Carpentry aims to help researchers get their work done in less time and with less pain by teaching them basic research computing skills. This hands-on workshop will cover basic concepts and tools, including program design (Python), version control (Git), data management (SQL), and task automation (Make). Participants will be encouraged to help one another and to apply what they have learned to their own research problems.

Further details https://www.archer2.ac.uk/training/#upcoming-training

Changes to OpenMPI modules on ARCHER2

There are currently three OpenMPI modules available on ARCHER2: openmpi/4.0.1-ofi-gcc10, openmpi/4.1.0-ofi-gcc10(default) and openmpi/4.1.0-ucx-gcc10.

As OpenMPI is not officially supported as an option for MPI on ARCHER2 (the supported MPI option is HPE Cray MPICH) we are planning to move these modules into the other-software module to help avoid confusion and to ensure users are aware that OpenMPI is not a supported MPI option on the service. We plan to make this change on 1 June 2021.

This change means that you will now need to use the sequence:

   module load other-software
   module load openmpi

to access this functionality from Wednesday 1 June 2021.

Other upcoming ARCHER2 Training

  • HPC Carpentry, Online, 2 - 3 June 2021 09:30 - 16:00 BST
  • Data Carpentry, Online, 14 - 17 June 2021 09:30 - 13:00 BST
  • Software Carpentry, Online, 21 - 24 June 2021 09:30 - 13:00 BST
  • Message-passing Programming with MPI, Online, always-open self-service course
  • Shared Memory Programming with OpenMP, Online, always-open self-service course

Further details https://www.archer2.ac.uk/training/#upcoming-training

New virtual tutorials will be announced soon via: ARCHER2 website: https://www.archer2.ac.uk/training/#upcoming-training

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ARCHER2_HPC

Recordings of past virtual tutorials can be found here: https://www.archer2.ac.uk/training/materials/